"The history of Christianity has been largely written in blood, theblood of those whom it has sought to proselytize as well as that of thoseChristians who did not share the theology or ambitions of the male clericaloligarchy that has always wielded power in Christendom. This ignobledistinction is not nor has it ever been the exclusive prerogative of anyparticular denomination or sect; it is a living legacy of horror that istragically common to the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodoxbodies of Christian churches."